Activities

To promote greater understanding between China and the international community, the Cairncross Foundation Lectures invites leading international economists to give lectures in Beijing on key developments in economic thinking and policies, and leading Chinese economists give lectures abroad on major issues and policies in China’s economic development and reform.

  • November 06, 2015
    Speaker:  Tim Besley
    Lecture Topic: Economic Governance, Growth and State Capacity
    Date: November 6, 2015
    Venue: Peking University
  • October 08, 2013
    Speaker: Sir Derek Morris
    Lecture Topic: Competition Policy and Regulation of Prices in Natural Monopolies
    Venue:  University of International Business and Economics
  • November 03, 2012
    Speaker: Wu Jinglian
    Lecture Topic: Challenges in China’s Economic Policy and System Reform
    Venue:Chatham House and University of Oxford, UK.
  • September 04, 2011
    Speaker: Michael Spence
    Lecture Topic: Globalisation, Structural Change and Income Distribution
    Date: September 14, 2011
    Venue: Tsinghua University
  • November 19, 2009
    Speaker: Paul Romer
    Lecture Topic: Policy Lessons from the Economics of Ideas
    Date:  November 19, 2009
    Venue: Peking University